Deployment Lead, FDE - SF
OpenAI · San Francisco · New York City
CHECKED 38M AGO
Frontier labonsitelead$230k–$294k
At a glance
Highlights
- Turn research breakthroughs into production systems with enterprise customers.
- Own end-to-end delivery from 0→1 prototypes through MVP and scale.
- Shape OpenAI's engagement model for Financial Services customers.
What they offer
- Relocation assistance
- Equity
Ideal candidate
Customer-obsessed delivery leader who thrives in ambiguity and owns outcomes end-to-end. You love embedding with customers, translating business goals into shipped AI systems that drive measurable impact.
Requirements
- 7+ years of customer-facing technical delivery leadership
- Track record leading large, complex, high-stakes customer engagements
- Excel in high-ambiguity environments, moving ambiguous problems to shipped systems
- Strong technical fluency with sharp sequencing and architectural trade-off instincts
- Experience shipping AI/LLM systems to production
- Executive presence, translating technical trade-offs for business stakeholders
- remote policy
- Hybrid - 3 days in office per week
Lab profile
About OpenAI
Builds safe frontier AI models and products like ChatGPT for broad benefit.
What they build
- ChatGPT
- OpenAI API
- Frontier AI models
Known for
- Frontier-scale distributed ML training
- Massive GPU fleet and data center operations
- Exabyte-scale data lakes and streaming
- AI alignment and safety research
Key facts
- Operates one of the world's largest GPU fleets